Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:45:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, dg@root.com, junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is Linux Successful? - An Opinion. Message-ID: <199905041545.IAA04208@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <372DC738.D316BCAC@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at May 3, 99 09:56:40 am
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> Many of the untruths are about Linux, not FreeBSD. The idea that anyone > can put code into Linux, for instance. Go back and read the interview > with Alan Cox at Linux Weekly News, where he admits one of the gating > factors for getting 2.2 out the door were long gaps where Linus was > not available to commit patches. So, in order of who can ACTUALLY add > code, we have FreeBSD with ~200 committers (the core team isn't the > only body that can commit code, they're the reviewers and arbiters) and > Linux with 1. Which is more likely to get bottlenecked during heavy > crunches? Which is glacial at getting releases out? Say, has anyone committed the new bind resolver code as libresolv, and ripped the ancient code out of libc, where it's damn near impossible to track the ISC releases of bind, yet? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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